The judge presiding over Jayson Williams's retrial for the fatal shooting of a hired driver in 2002 ruled yesterday that parts of a 911 call made by Mr. Williams's brother the night of the shooting should be excluded from the trial. The entire tap...

April 22, 2006, Saturday

A state judge delayed the retrial in the manslaughter case of Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star, yesterday until higher courts resolve all appellate issues, according to a person who was in the court. Jury selection was to begin Mar...

January 15, 2005, Saturday

The manslaughter trial of the former basketball player Jayson Williams, left, was rescheduled to March 7 from Jan. 10 because one of his five lawyers, Michael Kelly of Buffalo, had surgery in October. Another defense lawyer, Joseph A. Hayden, aske...

November 14, 2004, Sunday

The former N.B.A. star Jayson Williams will be retried on the charge of reckless manslaughter that left a jury deadlocked last month after his first trial in the fatal shooting of a limousine driver. The prosecutor in the first trial, Steven Le...

May 22, 2004, Saturday

At the start of jury deliberations in the Jayson Williams trial last month, the presiding judge, in a relatively rare move in New Jersey, gave the jury a written copy of his oral instructions on the law underlying the eight charges against Mr. Wil...

May 16, 2004, Sunday

By COREY KILGANNON and JANON FISHER; Corey Kilgannon reported for this article from New York, and Janon Fisher from Alexandria Township, N.J

While most jurors seemed persuaded that Jayson Williams did not mean to fatally shoot a chauffeur at his mansion two years ago, some of Mr. Williams's neighbors in Alexandria Township, N.J., yesterday said that the high-rolling, high-profile forme...

May 2, 2004, Sunday

JAYSON WILLIAMS was joyless for a man just handed an exit scene to a cautionary tale. Inside the paneled Somerset County courtroom, his face had remained unflinchingly somber as his body nervously swayed with a metronome's rhythm while the jur...